Visualising complexity

VISUALISING COMPLEXITY

Explaining the world with data

With the birth of modern statistics, in the mid 19th century, as a discipline capable of explaining different social, scientific, and economic phenomena, the need emerged to forge a new language that would overcome the distance between the quantitative measurement of reality and our need to understand the world with narrations.

The practise of transforming numbers into images to tell a story has a long tradition in science and design, that spans from the figurative maps of the 19th century to today’s data visualisations. In the second half of the 20th century, artists from different spheres started to create an information aesthetic, in which data became an instrument for representation and subjective exploration.

Over the course of its history, the discipline of information design has devel...

The exhibition is open
At CCCB (Barcelona) – From 9 May until 16 November 2014
At Espacio Fundación Telefónica (Madrid) – From 12 March until 24 May 2015
At Espacio Fundación Telefónica (Buenos Aires) – From 2 July until 28 November 2015